Highway System Quotes
- Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone… — George Will
- The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. — Charles Kuralt
- What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive… — Fareed Zakaria
- Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate… — Felix Rohatyn
- The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and… — John Lasseter
- The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. — Anthony Foxx
- The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America,… — Barry Ritholtz
- Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike. — Ronald Steel